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A Study Of A Culture <br />Ethnographers stress that we move within social worlds, and that to understand the behaviour, values and meanings of any given individual (or group), we must take account of some kind of cultural context. In this respect, ethnography balances attention to the sometimes minute everyday detail of individual lives with wider social structures. <br /><br />The word 'culture' is notoriously difficult to define, but it is hard to avoid in a discussion of ethnography. A culture is made up of certain values, practices, relationships and identifications. Spindler and Spindler (1992:70) have the following definition of 'culture': <br /><blockquote>For each social setting (i.e. classroom) in which various scenes (e.g. reading, 'meddlin', going to the bathroom) are studied, there is the prior (native) cultural knowledge held by each of the various actors, the action itself, and the emerging, stabilising rules, expectations, and some understandings that are tacit. Together these constitute a 'classroom' or 'school' culture.</blockquote><br />An ethnographer will try to define a particular culture by asking questions such as 'What does it mean to be a member of this group?' and 'What makes someone an insider or an outsider here?'. The ethnographer tries to make sense of what people are doing by asking 'What's going on here? How does this work? How do people do this?' and hopes to be told by those people about "the way we do things around here" (Deal 1985). <br /><br />Answering those questions requires an openness to learning from those who inhabit that culture, and a willingness to see everything and suspend premature judgment on what should be selected as data. The usefulness of the information may not be immediately apparent, but is often collected and stored anyway. This quality of openness lies at the heart of ethnography, in its processes, purposes and ethics. <br /><br />2. Multiple Methods, Diverse Forms Of Data <br />Cultures are complex and multi-faceted. To reach even a rudimentary understanding of them requires an openness to looking in many different ways. Different situations must be sampled many times - including the now widely accepted parameters of people, place and time - to establish what and who counts as being part of a culture. <br />Ethnographers often need to adopt a 'magpie' attitude to information. Data may consist of written documents, the researchers' own fieldnotes (including observational notes, and records of spoken communications such as discussions, chance conversations, interviews, and overheard remarks), audiotapes and videotapes; quantitative data may also be included, such as survey or experimental findings. Gold (1997:393) suggests that the fieldwork phase of an ethnography is complete only when 'both the ethnographer and his or her informants have exhausted their ability to identify other kinds of informants and other sorts of questions of relevance to the research objectives': ethnographers will keep looking, listening, asking, watching, experimenting, and so on until they feel they have enough to make sense of what is going on. <br /><br />In order to 'develop the story as it is experienced by participants' (Woods 1994:311), and gain a multi-dimensional appreciation of the setting, the ethnographer must be prepared to consider many different types of data. These can be generated only through the use of multiple methods, which may include interviewing, observing, quantitative work, and assembling cultural artifacts. It makes sense then, that a study which uses only one field technique (however exhaustively) does not constitute an ethnography, since it can generate only one kind of data. <br /><br />3. Engagement <br />The ethnographer believes that 'observation of culture in situ' (Denscombe 1995:184) is the best way of getting to know it intimately. Hence Woods' (1994:310) description of the 'most prominent features of an ethnographic approach' as 'long-term engagement in the situation as things actually happen and observing things first-hand.' Ethnographers work on the premise that there is important knowledge which can be gained in no other way than just 'hanging around' and 'picking things up' from a naturalistic setting. Spindler and Spindler (1992:63) are unequivocal: <br />The requirement for direct, prolonged, on-the-spot observation cannot be avoided or reduced. It is the guts of the ethnographic approach. <br /><br />The principle of engagement by the researcher contains two elements: human connection with participants, and an investment of time. There is an assumption that, as the researcher becomes a more familiar presence, participants are less likely to behave uncharacteristically. Gold (1997:394) explains: 'The fieldworker uses face-to-face relationships with informants as the fundamental way of demonstrating to them that he or she is there to learn about their lives without passing judgment on them ...' The idea is that participants 'perform' less, and, as trust builds, reveal more details of their lives. So the success of an ethnography depends on the researcher developing and maintaining a positive personal involvement with participants (Denscombe 1995:178), staying as close as possible to what and who is being studied, and returning perhaps many times to the field. Spindler and Spindler (1992:66) also argue that "only the human observer can be alert to divergences and subtleties that may prove more important than the data produced by any predetermined categories of observation or any instrument." <br /><br />Part of how an ethnographer learns about a culture is through a process of enculturation, which takes time. Participants and settings need time to show what's going on. As the researcher enters the culture more deeply, new questions and avenues open up, requiring further investigation. 'Blitzkrieg ethnography' (Rist 1980), where the researcher spends only two or three days in the field, is therefore a contradiction in terms: a prolonged period of investigation is essential for an ethnographer to get to know the ways of a culture. Walford (1991:91) touches upon the issue of how long is 'prolonged': <br /><blockquote>... I eventually spent about 225 hours spread over 29 days at the college, including two staff development days from October until Christmas. I like to think of this as 'compressed ethnography', although there are many who would argue that it is inappropriate to use the term ethnography for such a short period.</blockquote><br />It is important to realise that ethnography's requirement of a prolonged period of observation is not driven by quantitative thinking, although it may appear that way. The core issue is the quality of work which can be conducted. Spindler and Spindler (1992:65) define time required not primarily in terms of numbers, but by what degree of understanding the researcher must reach before leaving the field: <br /><blockquote>[T]he validity of ethnographic observation is based on observation in situ that lasts long enough to permit the ethnographer to see things happen not once but repeatedly. [...] We must observe these happenings often enough so that finally we learn nothing significant by their reoccurrence. A researcher knows when that point has been reached. Then one should observe still longer, to be sure that one's sense of that point in time is not premature nor the result of fatigue.</blockquote><br />When they suggest, for example, at least 3 months for "an adequate study of a single classroom", "with observation continuing for a significant portion of every school day", they add that it "would be better if this 3-month period were spread over an entire school year, because some things just do not happen during a 3-month period (Spindler and Spindler 1992:66)". The driving principle is the need for some kind of completeness, which can be achieved through sampling people at different places, and at different times. <br /><br />4. Researcher As Instrument <br />Denscombe (1995) points out that much detailed and useful background information on a setting is often subjectively informed, echoing Woods (1994:313), who describes an ethnographer as 'his or her own primary source of data.' Whether the researcher's subjectivity is a weakness or strength is not the issue. Experiencing the world subjectively is a way of life, and not one that we can choose, and is therefore an inevitable feature of the research act. <br /><br />The ethnographer must aim to keep an open mind about 'what is going on here' and what might be the best ways to talk or write about whatever is being studied. But recognising the presence of subjectivity is not the same as saying 'anything goes'. After all, at the very least, "one begins fieldwork not with a tabula rasa but with a foreshadowed problem in mind" (Wilcox 1982:459), and "one is utilising one's knowledge of existing social theory to guide and inform one's observations" (p. 458). In other words, there is a context - social and sociological - to the context one is studying. <br /><br />Somehow a balance must be struck between suspending preconceptions and using one's present understandings and beliefs to enquire intelligently. Dey (1993:63-4) puts it this way: <br /><blockquote>... there is a difference between an open mind and empty head. To analyse data, we need to use accumulated knowledge, not dispense with it. The issue is not whether to use existing knowledge, but how [...] The danger lies not in having assumptions but in not being aware of them ...</blockquote><br />To achieve such awareness, and guard against methodological and substantive 'blindness', the ethnographer must work systematically, constantly reviewing the evolution of his or her ideas, reflecting on why particular decisions were made, why certain questions were asked or not asked, why data were generated a particular way and so on. Above all the ethnographer must try to articulate the assumptions and values implicit in the research, and what it means to acknowledge the researcher as part of, rather than outside, the research act. For Hammersley and Atkinson (1995:192), reflexivity, which demands 'the provision of ... a 'natural history' of the research' as experienced and influenced by the researcher, is a 'crucial component of the complete ethnography.' Through this 'reconstructed logic of enquiry' (Hammersley and Atkinson 1995: 21), the ethnographer is able to say what he or she has learnt, and how he or she learnt it. <br /><br />5. Multiple perspectives <br />Each person's account of the world is unique. What the researcher offers is an account which can be examined critically and systematically because the means by which it was generated is clearly articulated. It is often in the nature of ethnography that participants' accounts and actions appear to be in the foreground, and that the researcher has managed to 'get out of the way', acting only as 'information broker' (Goodson and Mangan 1996:48). However, whether easily visible or not, it is the researcher who remains the highest authority, who selects from what has been seen and heard, and constructs the final account. <br />The researcher's power in this respect needs to be tempered for this account to be credible, such that we as readers feel that something of the culture has been illuminated rather than further obscured by the idiosyncrasies of a single observer/commentator. This can - and should be - achieved in at least three ways. First, as suggested earlier, the ethnographer must be culturally open-minded from the start, prepared to challenge his or her own theories and understanding, constantly testing them. This also implies that what people other than the researcher have to say has value as well. <br /><br />Second, all claims about the culture must be based on some kind of empirical experience of that culture. Such evidence must be presented to or be available to the reader so that he or she can evaluate the claims made by the writer. It is in the nature of ethnography that a wealth of data is generated, recorded and stored; the writer's job is to share with the readers precisely which data have led to a particular claim. <br /><br />Third, participants hold knowledge about themselves which nobody else has. Thomas (1928:572) argued that 'if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.' If this is true, then what people believe to be the reality of their world must be important information in understanding their activities, values, meanings and relationships and in working out 'what is going on'. The most direct means of getting this information is to ask those people. So the researcher's power can also be tempered by seeking multiple perspectives and allowing them to influence the researcher. This has methodological implications: <br /><em>Rather than relying on a preconceived framework for gathering and analysing data, ethnographers use their interactions with informants to discover and create analytical frameworks for understanding and portraying that which is under study. The procedures used in this direct and intimate acquaintance with the empirical world provide assurance that the data collected are grounded in informants' actual experiences (Gold 1997:399).</em>Hargreaves (1991:11) claims that 'failure to understand the teacher's voice is failure to understand the teacher's teaching'. Perhaps we should also say, failure to understand a social actor's voice is failure to understand the actor's acting. Building accounts of life as seen through the eyes of the actors themselves will almost always challenge existing images of them and what they do. Enabling a relatively unheard voice to come to the attention of a wider audience is always a political act. This becomes even more significant when those individuals are speaking about matters in which they hold unique knowledge and which directly concern them. One could argue that people even have a right to have a say in matters directly affecting them. There are both methodological and ethical implications of highlighting actors' perspectives. <br /><br />However, as Spindler and Spindler (1992:70) point out, "knowing what natives know is not enough." A researcher may well be able to discover and articulate things about individuals and groups which they cannot see themselves, as well as things which neither the participants or researcher can see at the outset of the study. Moreover, while the traditional ethnographer works on the assumption that group members' knowledge and perspectives are particularly valuable, s/he would also expect to challenge/problematise them ('making the familiar strange'), balancing respect for participant accounts with skepticism and an outsider's perspective. Spindler and Spindler (1992:70) argue that "some of the sociocultural knowledge affecting behaviour and communication in any particular setting being studied is implicit or tacit, not known to some participants and known only ambiguously to others." <br />Spindler and Spindler (1992:73) believe that there can be a diplomatic (if not methodological) problem with this, for "the implicit is often implicit because it is unacceptable [to members of the culture] at the explicit level." Moreover, the researcher's interpretation or "cultural translation" is "influenced, at least, and transformed, at worst, by [...] theories and models" which are often "extraneous to the cultural knowledge of the native" and therefore regarded as suspect by natives. The ethnographer has to walk a very fine line. <br /><br />6. Cycle of hypothesis and theory building <br />The openness which has underpinned many of the elements so far is particularly evident in the ethnographer's constant commitment to modify hypotheses and theories in the light of further data. Gold (1997:395) describes it as the 'running interaction between formulating and testing (and reformulating and retesting).' <br />In this type of enquiry, developing a theory is not so much an event as a process. As new data emerge, existing hypotheses may prove inadequate, the ethnographer's sense of what needs to be looked at and reported on may change, and explanations of what is going on may be supplanted by ones which seem to fit better. Such an approach is consonant with emergent design, another distinguishing feature of ethnography. <br /><br />7. Intention And Outcome <br />An ethnographer asks (though perhaps not in so many words) 'How do things work around here, and what does it mean to be a member of this group?'. S/he aims 'to discover how people in the study area classify or label each other, how they find meaning in activities they care about in life, and how they engage in processes in which they individually and collectively define (antecedents and consequences of) their situations (Gold 1997:391).' Spindler and Spindler (1992:70) hold a similar view: <br /><blockquote>The object of ethnographic research by anthropologists is to discover the cultural knowledge that people hold in their minds, how it is employed in social interaction, and the consequences of this employment.</blockquote><br />Any attempt to generalise findings beyond the case itself should be regarded as suspect, since statistical random sampling is rarely a feature of ethnographic research. Rather, as with other kinds of qualitative work, the intention is to achieve some kind of understanding of a specific case, whether it be a culture, people or setting. Of course, the fact that we publish our findings suggests that we feel they are applicable to other settings and are possibly generalisable in some way, a fact not on lost on either Spindler (1982:8) or Hammersley (1992). The latter suggests that empirical generalisation is possible in some cases if 'typicality' of a defined population at a given time can be established. <br /><br />In describing the outcome of this kind of research, Denscombe (1995:182) draws attention to the 'storytelling' aspect. An ethnography contains descriptions of local places, snapshots of people's lives and relationships, their inner thoughts and feelings, their outward appearances, anecdotes of personal triumphs and disasters, rules, contradictions and meanings. And at the end of all of this, through a judicious blend of empirical experience, systematic activity and appropriate theory, the ethnographer hopes to construct a coherent story that takes the reader into a deeper and richer appreciation of the people who have been studied. As Wilcox (1982:462) succinctly puts it: <br /><br /><blockquote>The goal of ethnography is to combine the view of an insider with that of an outsider to describe a social setting. The resulting description is expected to be deeper and fuller than that of the ordinary outsider, and broader and less culture-bound than that of the ordinary insider.</blockquote><br /><br />For the ethnographer, partial enculturation is the means by which the final story is reached, and s/he then leaves the field in order to tell other people about what has been learnt; s/he rarely needs or intends to stay around afterwards. What might an ethnographer do differently if he or she expected to become or remain a member of the group beyond the life of the study? What research methods would s/he use, what questions would s/he ask, what story or stories would s/he tell, and how would the findings be disseminated? <br /><br />Conclusion <br />It is only by examining what ethnography is - its aims, methods, possibilities and problems - that we can establish what unique contribution it can make to understanding social life, and make decisions about its appropriateness as a investigative strategy for a given research question. No doubt, the term 'ethnography' will continue to be used to describe many different kinds of research activity. Perhaps for some it does not matter that it is used to designate studies which do not have much methodological similarity. Of course, if 'ethnography' comes to mean too many different things to too many different people, then it ceases to be a useful term at all, and we might as well discard it or, at the very least, develop more precise terms to describe the different activities which are supposedly encompassed by the word. <br /><br />What I have tried to do here is identify the underlying values, practices and identifications which my use of the word is intended to signal. Perhaps one of the most important principles is to gain a deeper understanding of what we might mean by the word 'culture'. So, as an ethnographer, I would like to ask those attending this conference: what is going on here? what does it mean to be a member of this culture? It is not necessary for anyone else to agree with my suggestions, but it might be helpful if, while we are at this ethnographers' convention, we could spend some time talking about what conventions define us as belonging together in one discipline: ethnography. <br /><br />I believe that ethnography is alive, but I am not so convinced that it is well. There is, without doubt, a culture of ethnographers. It is our job to attend to the culture of ethnography, that is, the care, growth and indeed survival of ethnography as a discipline. 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(1991) 'Restructuring restructuring: postmodernity and the prospects for educational change', Unpublished paper, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education <br /><br />Massey, A. and Walford, G. (1998) 'Children Learning: Ethnographers Learning', in <br /><br />Walford, G. and Massey, A. (Eds.) Children Learning In Context, JAI Press, New York, 1-18 <br /><br />Rist, R.C. (1980) 'Blitzkrieg ethnography: on the transformation of a method into a movement', Educational Researcher, 9, 2, 8-10 <br /><br />Spindler, G. (Ed.) (1982) 'Introduction', in Doing the ethnography of schooling, New York, CBS Publishing, 1-13 <br /><br />Spindler, G and Spindler, L. (1992) 'Cultural process and ethnography: an anthropological perspective', The handbook of qualitative research in education, London/New York, Academic Press, 53- <br /><br />Thomas, W.I. (1928) The child in America, New York, Knopf Walford, G. (ed.) (1991) Doing Educational Research, London, Routledge <br /><br />Wilcox, K. (1982) 'Ethnography as a methodology and its application to the study of schooling: a review', in Spindler, G. (Ed.) Doing the ethnography of schooling, New York, CBS Publishing, 456-488 <br /><br />Woods, P. (1994) 'Collaborating in historical ethnography: researching critical events in education', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 7, 4, 309-321http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/08/ethnography.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-6214505081699288917Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:27:00 +00002014-08-01T21:06:00.557-04:00Embodied FilmsSensory Scenes: Opening of Apocalypse Now Opening of Gangs of New York/sound effects of Jaws and Friday the 13th and The Exorcist Blue -- musical sensory moments Opening of Blue Velvet Tracking shot in Code Unknown Tracking shot of high school entrance in Donnie Darko Opening scene of Goodfellas, the tracking shot of the first date, the paranoia at the end The Matrix -- the removal of the jack, the training, and the interrogation of morpheus Illness: A Beautiful Mind Contagion Sexuality: Before Sunrise Blue is the Warmest Color A Dangerous Method Harold and Maude The Night Porter Nymphomaniac Rust and Bone Shortbus Criminality: A Clockwork Orange Gomorrah Truth/Authenticity: Fog of War The Thin Blue Line Identity/Memory: 2001: A Space Odyssey Adaptation Bladerunner Being John Malkovich Dogtooth Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Even the Rain Grizzly Man Her Human Nature Hunger La' Commune Let the Right One In (Ideological Becoming) Body: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days Bamboozled (guide in gmail) Boys Don't Cry (guide in gmail) Gattica (Eugenics lecture in Gmail) Human Nature Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Violence: The Act of Killing The Addiction (Presentation in Gmail) The Battle of Algiers Cache City of God City of Life and Death Demonlover (Global flows of capitalism) Do the Right Thing (Discursive violence as a prelude to physical violence) Funny Games Hostel Jarhead Night and Fog The Passion of the Christ Salo Saw Standard Operating Procedure (emphasis on the mediated representation) Tarantino films Zero Dark Thirty Environment: Exit Through the Gift Shop Slam http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/07/embodied-films.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-1148115890681216293Tue, 08 Jul 2014 16:39:00 +00002014-07-27T16:46:52.837-04:00Mexican Feast<a href="http://www.closetcooking.com/2013/09/chipotle-peach-salsa-quesadillas.html">Chipolte Peach Salsa</a><br /><br />Smoky Pork Tinga (Mexican Everyday Cookbook pg 191-193)<br /><br />Grilled Chicken Thighs and Breasts with Yucatecan Spices (Mexican Everyday Cookbook pg 171-173)<br /><br />Roasted Fresh Chile Salsa (Mexican Everyday pg 158-159)<br /><br />Barbacoa (Shredded Beef) (The Mexican Slow Cooker pg 97)<br /><br /><a href="http://static.squarespace.com/static/5158af6ae4b052be77364693/t/538bd944e4b0f0198f22014a/1401674052699/yucatanshrimp.pdf ">Yucatan Shrimp Tacos</a><br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.afamilyfeast.com/rocket-fuel-homemade-hot-sauce/">Rocket Fuel</a> salsa<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://foodess.com/2014/06/spicy-fish-tacos-with-cabbage-slaw-lime-crema/">Spicy Fish Tacos w/ Cabbage Slaw Lime Crema</a> [or <a href="http://www.cookbooks365.com/fish-tacos-fruit-salsa/">Killer Fish Tacos</a> ]<br /><br /> Margaritas http://www.afamilyfeast.com/margaritas/ Guacamole http://www.afamilyfeast.com/guacamole/ Salsa http://www.afamilyfeast.com/salsa/ Mango Cilantro Mojitos http://ahouseinthehills.com/2014/07/07/mango-cilantro-mojitos/ Watermelon Salad http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/07/mexican-feast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-5566240353277167285Fri, 30 May 2014 22:38:00 +00002014-05-30T18:46:23.893-04:00Resources for May 30, 2014"If you're not angry, you're either a stone... or you're too sick to be angry." - Maya Angelou<br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/08zXTyAb6TY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/opinion/sunday/end-mass-incarceration-now.html">"End Mass Incarceration Now!"</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (May 25, 2014)<br /><br /><i>Center for Constitutional Rights</i>: "Iraq Veterans Against the War has released The Fort Hood Report, a snapshot in time of the largest Army post in the country, from the height of its deployment cycle to the recent drawdown. It includes 31 in-depth testimonials from Fort Hood veterans, soldiers and family members who lived through the trauma of that time. Read <a href="http://forthoodtestimonies.com/">their stories here</a>."<br /> <br />Johnson, Nicholas. <a href="http://podcasts.c-spanvideo.org/trimmed/full/316/316565-1/316565-1-MP3-STD_01.mp3">"<i>Negroes and the Gun</i>."</a> <i>After Words</i> (January 18, 2014) ["Fordham Law School Professor Nicholas Johnson talks about his book, [Negroes and the Gun], in which he argues that there is an unreported tradition of African Americans using firearms to defend their families and communities."]<br /><br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i> archives:<br /> <br /><a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for.html">Resources for May 25, 2014</a><br /><br /><a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-27-2014.html">Resources for May 27, 2014</a><br /><br /><br />“This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don’t think it’s a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” -- Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (1961)<br /><br />Nocera, Joe. <a href="http://nocera.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/holiday-weekend-gun-report-may-23-26-2014/">"Holiday Weekend Gun Report: May 23-26, 2014."</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (May 27, 2014)<br /><br /><br /><br />bricolage \bree-koh-LAHZH\<br /><br />noun: construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of ideas) achieved by using whatever comes to hand; also : something constructed in this way<br /> <br />EXAMPLES<br /> <br />Knowing that the motor was assembled from a hasty bricolage of junk parts, Raphael had little hope that it would run effectively.<br /> <br />"Hustad reconstructs the past through a bricolage of interviews, letters, newspaper articles, Bible verses, prayers and anecdotes…." — From a book review by Justin St. Germain in The New York Times, March 23, 2014<br /> <br /> According to French social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, the artist "shapes the beautiful and useful out of the dump heap of human life." Lévi-Strauss compared this artistic process to the work of a handyman who solves technical or mechanical problems with whatever materials are available. He referred to that process of making do as "bricolage," a term derived from the French verb "bricoler" (meaning "to putter about") and related to "bricoleur," the French name for a jack-of-all-trades. "Bricolage" made its way from French to English during the 1960s, and it is now used for everything from the creative uses of leftovers ("culinary bricolage") to the cobbling together of disparate computer parts ("technical bricolage").http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-30-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-5968512762790925249Thu, 22 May 2014 17:33:00 +00002014-05-22T13:33:46.300-04:00Resources for May 22, 2014Bergen, Benjamin K. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-k-bergen/the-new-science-of-meaning_b_2273090.html">"The New Science of Meaning."</a> <i>Huffington Post</i> (December 11, 2012)<br /><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/hc45-ptHMxo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i> archives:<br /> <br /><a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-16-2014.html">Resources for May 16, 2014</a><br /><br /><a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-21-2014.html">Resources for May 21, 2014</a><br /><br /><br />Morgan, James. <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27441156">"'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered."</a> <i>BBC</i> (May 16, 2014)<br /><br />Rich, Nathaniel. <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/2014/may/16/lee-friedlander-new-orleans/">"Authenticity All Right: Lee Friedlander’s New Orleans."</a> <i>New York Review of Books</i> (May 16, 2014)<br /><br /><br />“What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.” ― John Cage, <a href="https://archive.org/details/silencelecturesw1961cage"><i>Silence: Lectures and Writings</i></a> (1961)<br /><br />"There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit. The assertion of dogma closes the mind and turns a nation, a civilization into a regiment of ghosts — obedient ghosts, or tortured ghosts." -- Jacob Bronowski, Ascent of Man (1973)<br /><br /><br />Gottschalk, Peter. <a href="http://podcasts.c-spanvideo.org/trimmed/full/316/316040-1/316040-1-MP3-STD_01.mp3">"<i>American Heretics: Catholics, Jews, Muslims and the History of Religious Intolerance</i>."</a> <i>After Words</i> (December 28, 2013) ["Peter Gottschalk talks about his book, <i>American Heretics: Catholics, Jews, Muslims and the History of Religious Intolerance</i>, in which he argues that religious intolerance has been strong in America since the middle of the nineteenth century."]<br /><br />Levin, Yuval. <a href="http://podcasts.c-spanvideo.org/trimmed/full/316/316636-1/316636-1-MP3-STD_01.mp3">"<i>The Great Debate</i>."</a> <i>After Words</i> (January 4, 2014) ["Yuval Levin, founder and editor of <i>National Affairs</i>, talks about his book, <i>The Great Debate</i>, in which he discusses the origin of the political Left-Right divide, arguing that today's partisanship began with the debates over the French Revolution."]<br /><br />http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-22-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-3496821016475508290Fri, 16 May 2014 12:25:00 +00002014-05-16T08:28:31.128-04:00Resources for May 16, 2014<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/BG46IwVfSu8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i> archives:<br /><br /><a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-12-2014.html">Resources for May 12, 2014</a><br /><br /><a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-black-power-mixtape-1967-1975.html">The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Sweden: Göran Olsson, 2011)</a><br /><br />House, Silas. <a href="http://www.kentucky.com/2014/05/13/3239952/silas-house-beshear-lawsuit-embarrasses.html">"Beshear lawsuit embarrasses state, tarnishes his legacy; Backward thinking on Ky.'s gay-marriage ban."</a> <i>Lexington Herald-Leader</i> (May 13, 2014)<br /><br />Roy, Arundhati. <a href="http://wearemany.org/v/capitalism-ghost-story">"Capitalism: A Ghost Story"</a> <i>We Are Many</i> (March 26, 2014 at The New School in NYC) ["From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country’s 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic product. Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation."]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dronesurvivalguide.org/">Drone Survival Guide</a> [Website: "Our ancestors could spot natural predators from far by their silhouettes. Are we equally aware of the predators in the present-day? Drones are remote-controlled planes that can be used for anything from surveillance and deadly force, to rescue operations and scientific research. Most drones are used today by military powers for remote-controlled surveillance and attack, and their numbers are growing. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) predicted in 2012 that within 20 years there could be as many as 30.000 drones flying over U.S. Soil alone. As robotic birds will become commonplace in the near future, we should be prepared to identify them. This survival guide is an attempt to familiarise ourselves and future generations, with a changing technological environment. This document contains the silhouettes of the most common drone species used today and in the near future. Each indicating nationality and whether they are used for surveillance only or for deadly force. All drones are drawn in scale for size indication. From the smallest consumer drones measuring less than 1 meter, up to the Global Hawk measuring 39,9 meter in length."]<br /><br /> Crockford, Kade. <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/san-francisco-woman-pulled-out-car-gunpoint-because-license-plate-reader">"San Francisco Woman Pulled Out of Car at Gunpoint Because of License Plate Reader Error."</a> <i>Free Future</i> (May 13, 2014)<br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J1z5wQkR54Q/U3S1fJGoBkI/AAAAAAAAAdA/DhC6jpf7G5E/s1600/photo+(3).JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J1z5wQkR54Q/U3S1fJGoBkI/AAAAAAAAAdA/DhC6jpf7G5E/s400/photo+(3).JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />Angier, Natalie. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/science/02angier.html?_r=0">"Abstract Thoughts? The Body Takes Them Literally."</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (February 2, 2010)<br /><br /><br /><i>Merriam-Webster Word-of-the-Day</i><br /><br />eidetic \eye-DET-ik\<br /> <br />adjective: marked by or involving extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall especially of visual images<br /> <br />EXAMPLES<br /> <br />Thanks to her eidetic memory, Kirsten was able to recall every last detail of what happened that night, including the colors of each person's outfit.<br /> <br />"Jason Bateman, making his feature directing debut after directing episodes of his 'Arrested Development' series, plays an adult who uses a loophole to enter a spelling bee and whose eidetic memory all but guarantees he will win if he chooses." — From a movie review by Duane Dudek in the Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee), March 27, 2014<br />http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-16-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-5268710889063160536Mon, 12 May 2014 10:36:00 +00002014-05-12T06:36:42.884-04:00Resources for May 12, 2014Eblen, Tom. <a href="http://www.kentucky.com/2014/05/10/3236929/tom-eblen-he-may-not-get-past.html">"Danny Mayer May Not Get Past the Primary, but Mayoral Candidate's Ideas are Worth Discussing."</a> <i>Herald-Leader</i> (May 10, 2014)<br /><br /><i>Dialogic</i> archive: <a href="http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2012/09/chris-hedges-journalistwar-correspondent.html">Chris Hedges: Journalist/War Correspondent</a><br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i> archive: <a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-9-2014.html">Resources for May 9, 2014</a><br /><br />McNair, James. <a href="http://kycir.org/2014/05/08/despite-cuts-kentucky-community-college-head-gets-lucrative-deal/">"Despite Cuts, Kentucky Community College Head Gets Lucrative Deal."</a> <i>Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting</i> (May 8, 2014)<br /><br /><i>Open Secrets</i>: <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/hotraces.php">Campaign Finance Information of Candidates Running for Election this Year</a><br /><br />Wolfson, Andrew. <a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-governor/2014/05/09/beshear-lawyers-say-gay-marriage-threatens-kentucky-birth-rates/8891661/">"Beshear lawyers say gay marriage threatens Kentucky birth rates."</a> <i>Louisville Courier-Journal</i> (May 9, 2014)<br /><br /><a href="http://rt.com/usa/157744-vermont-gmo-labeling-signed/">"Vermont governor signs first in US GMO-labeling law to go into effect."</a> <i>RT</i> (May 8, 2014)<br /><br />Kitchen, Sebastien. <a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/metro-government/2014/04/14/citizens-support-increasing-minimum-wage-louisville/7720889/">"Citizens support increasing minimum wage in Louisville."</a> <i>Courier-Journal</i> (April 14, 2014)<br /><br />Potter, Gary. <a href="http://uprootingcriminology.org/blogs/bullet-barney-dod-small-town-police-forces/">"A Bullet for Barney: The Department Of Defense and Small Town Police Forces."</a> <i>Uprooting Criminology</i> (December 19, 2013)<br /><br />Stoll, John D. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304655304579554443169226928">"Conchita Wurst of Austria Wins Eurovision Song Contest: Wurst's Onstage Drag Persona Was Created by 25-Year-Old Singer Thomas Neuwirth."</a> <i>Wall St. Journal</i> (May 11, 2014)http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-12-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-2988160110046957450Fri, 09 May 2014 16:40:00 +00002014-05-09T12:40:05.481-04:00Resources for May 9, 2014<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/10171722_683643121703455_2538443012801957975_n.jpg" width="95%"><br /><br /><br />Holland, Joshua. <a href="http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/02/a-primer-just-what-is-net-neutrality-and-why-all-the-fuss/">"A Primer: Just What Is Net Neutrality — and Why All the Fuss?"</a> <i>Moyers & Co</i> (May 2, 2014)<br /><br />Watts, Jonathan. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/uruguay-president-jose-mujica">"Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills."</a> <i>The Guardian</i> (December 13, 2013)<br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i> archive: <a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-square-egyptusa-jehane-noujaim-2013.html">The Square (Egypt/USA: Jehane Noujaim, 2013)</a><br /><br />Constantino, Bobby. <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/i-got-myself-arrested-so-i-could-look-inside-the-justice-system/282360/">"I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System: A former prosecutor fights the law and lets it win."</a> <i>The Atlantic</i> (December 17, 2013)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/">Merriam-Webster's Word-of-the-Day</a><br /><br />Brown, Ellen. <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23547-robbing-main-street-to-prop-up-wall-street-why-jerry-browns-rainy-day-fund-is-a-bad-idea-for-california">"Robbing Main Street to Prop Up Wall Street: Why Jerry Brown's Rainy Day Fund Is a Bad Idea for California."</a> <i>TruthOut</i> (May 7, 2014)["There is no need to sequester funds urgently needed by Main Street to pay for Wall Street's malfeasance. Californians can have their cake and eat it too – with a state-owned bank."]<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uX-S86xdMSc/U2z4lsuLDVI/AAAAAAAAAcA/e9D-ACFh3rc/s1600/close+guantanamo.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uX-S86xdMSc/U2z4lsuLDVI/AAAAAAAAAcA/e9D-ACFh3rc/s400/close+guantanamo.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><i>Center for Constitutional Rights</i>: "Is this who we are?" asked President Obama almost one year ago during a speech in response to the mass hunger strike at Guantánamo prison and international condemnation over the force-feeding of men. Little has changed since that speech on May 23rd of last year. Not a single Yemeni has been released, even though the president lifted his self-imposed ban on transfers to Yemen, and men like our client Tariq Ba Odah, who continue hunger-striking, are still force-fed. On May 23rd, join activists across the world for a global day of action to close Guantánamo. We must keep the pressure on the administration to expedite the release of men already cleared for transfer and those it does not intend to charge. <a href="http://bit.ly/1nt4Lgu">There will be demos in DC, NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Hawaii, Munich, London, Sydney and many more cities</a> (via Witness Against Torture)<br /><br /> Hedges, Chris. <a href="http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/chris-hedges-losing-last-shreds-legal-rights-protect-oligarchy/">"We’re Losing the Last Shreds of Legal Rights to Protect Ourselves from Oligarchy."</a> <i>RINF</i> (May 8, 2014)<br /><br />http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-9-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-951212666212929030Wed, 07 May 2014 20:27:00 +00002014-05-07T16:27:13.380-04:00Resources for May 7, 2014<i>Kentuckians For the Commonwealth</i> poll of candidate positions for the upcoming May 20, 2014 primaries: <a href="http://kentuckyelection.org/">"2014 Kentucky Primary Election: Candidate Positions."</a> -- of particular interest is <a href="http://kentuckyelection.org/lexington/">the Lexington Mayoral race</a><br /><br />Dershowitz, Alan, Glenn Greenwald, Michael Hayden and Alexis Ohanian. <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/05/02/livestream-munk-debate-surveillance-greenwald-hayden">"Glenn Greenwald Debates Former NSA Director Michael Hayden."</a> <i>The Intercept</i> (May 2, 2014) [<a href="http://www.munkdebates.com/debates/State-Surveillance">Results of the debate</a>]<br /><br />Goldenberg, Suzanne. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/04/climate-change-present-us-national-assessment">"Climate change is clear and present danger, says landmark US report: National Climate Assessment, to be launched at White House on Tuesday, says effects of climate change are now being felt."</a> <i>The Guardian</i> (May 4, 2014)<br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i> archives: <br /><br /><a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-7-2014.html">Resources for May 7, 2014</a><br /><br /><a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-unknown-known-usa-errol-morris-2013.html">The Unknown Known (USA: Errol Morris, 2013)</a><br /><br /><br />Doctorow, Cory. <a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/12/31/jacob-appelbaums-must-watch.html">"Jacob Appelbaum's must-watch 30C3 talk: why NSA spying affects you, no matter who you are."</a> <i>Boing Boing</i> (December 31, 2013)<br /><br />Greene, Robyn. <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/even-your-avatar-cant-escape-nsa-surveillance">"Even Your Avatar Can't Escape NSA Surveillance."</a> <i>ACLU</i> (December 12, 2013)<br /><br /><a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-citizens-albuquerque-city-council-call-arrest-chief/">"Citizens Take Over Albuquerque City Council, Call For the Arrest of Chief: 'We now serve a people’s warrant for arrest on Albuquerque Police Chief Gordon Eden.'"</a> <i>Free Thought Project</i> (May 6, 2014)<br /><br />Eberhard, J.T. <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2014/05/after-book-is-banned-to-satisfy-religious-parents-student-hands-out-copies-for-free/">"After book is banned to satisfy religious parents, student hands out copies for free."</a> <i>Patheos</i> (May 5, 2014)<br /><br />Pitzer, Andrea. <a href="http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/trotskys-canadian-holiday.php">"Trotsky's Canadian Holiday."</a> <i>Lapham's Quarterly</i> (May 6, 2014)<br /><br />http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-7-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-2642772642233190543Tue, 06 May 2014 13:41:00 +00002014-05-06T09:41:38.987-04:00Resources for May 6, 2014Blyth, Mark, David Kaiser and Vanessa Williamson. <a href="http://radioopensource.org/the-french-sensation-income-inequality-in-700-pages-and-a-hundred-graphs/">"The French Sensation: Income Inequality in 700 Pages and a Hundred Graphs."</a> <i>Radio Open Source</i> (May 1, 2014)<br /><br />Frauenfelder, Mark. <a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/05/01/photos-of-the-new-satanic-monu.html">"Photos of the new Satanic monument being built for Oklahoma's Statehouse."</a> <i>Boing Boing</i> (May 1, 2014)<br /><br />Peters, Jeremy W. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/us/politics/senate-minimum-wage-bill.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0">"Republican-Led Filibuster Blocks Minimum Wage Bill in Senate."</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (May 1, 2014)<br /><br />McDonough, Katie. <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/04/30/tennessee_just_became_the_first_state_that_will_jail_women_for_their_pregnancy_outcomes/">"Tennessee just became the first state that will jail women for their pregnancy outcomes: Against the advice of doctors, addiction experts and reproductive health groups, Gov. Bill Haslam signed SB 1391."</a> <i>Salon</i> (April 30, 2014)<br /><br />The Editorial Board. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/opinion/sunday/the-koch-attack-on-solar-energy.html">"The Koch Attack on Solar Energy."</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (April 27, 2014)<br /><br />Fain, Paul. <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/30/nc-community-colleges-tap-craft-brewing-industry#sthash.FIu9tjNh.dpbs">"Will Work in Beer."</a> <i>Inside Higher Ed</i> (January 30, 2014) [Asheville, NC community college starts new 2 degree in Craft Beer brewing]<br /><br />Jaschik, Scott. <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/05/kentucky-supreme-court-strengthens-rights-faculty-members-religious-institutions#sthash.4L7rPhUJ.dpbs">"Church and Tenure."</a> <i>Inside Higher Ed</i> (May 5, 2014) ["The Kentucky Supreme Court has issued two unanimous decisions that strengthen the rights of tenured professors at religious institutions."]<br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i> archive: <a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-5-2014.html">Resources for May 5, 2014</a><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd050514s.gif" width="95%"><br /><br /><br /><i>Merriam-Webster's Word-of-the-Day</i><br /><br />gist \JIST\<br /><br /> noun 1 : the ground of a legal action; 2 : the main point or part : essence<br /> <br />I didn't catch every word, but I heard enough to get the gist of the conversation.<br /> <br />"If you have seen the animated children's movie Balto, you know the gist of the Iditarod story; however, there is more to the story than a mysterious wolf/dog who beat the odds, carried the antitoxin across the tundra and got the girl." — From an article by Victoria Burris in The Omnibus (Southwest Baptist University), March 5, 2014 <br /> <br />"The gist of the conversation was that ...." The word "gist" often appears in such contexts to let us know that what follows will be a statement or summary that in some way encapsulates the main point or overarching theme. The gist of a conversation, argument, story, or what-have-you is what we rely on when the actual words and details are only imperfectly recalled, inessential, or too voluminous to recount in their entirety. "Gist" was borrowed from the Anglo-French legal phrase "[cest] action gist" ("[this] action lies") in the early 18th century, and was originally used in legal contexts as a term referring to the foundation or grounds for a legal action without which that action would not be legally sustainable.http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-6-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-1426867885758555058Mon, 05 May 2014 15:01:00 +00002014-05-09T13:14:56.947-04:00Resources for ENG 102: Summer 2014<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/">Merriam-Webster's Word-of-the-Day</a><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6DQ3LLfbxDk/U1fu9woJJLI/AAAAAAAAAbU/0MNnLQUAegU/s1600/googlelikeapro.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6DQ3LLfbxDk/U1fu9woJJLI/AAAAAAAAAbU/0MNnLQUAegU/s640/googlelikeapro.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Laura Webb HIS 120 essay (paragraph thesis statements) [in work computer "documents" and gmail]<br /><br /><i>Business Insider</i>: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6">6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America</a><br /><br />Biotechnology/Eugenics lecture<br /><br />Dialogic archive: Edward Snowden<br /><br />Piece for Mayer for Mayor on Minimum Wage issue<br /><br />Ken Robinson RSAnimate video -- Changing Education Paradigms<br /><br />Dershowitz, Alan, Glenn Greenwald, Michael Hayden and Alexis Ohanian. <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/05/02/livestream-munk-debate-surveillance-greenwald-hayden">"Glenn Greenwald Debates Former NSA Director Michael Hayden."</a> <i>The Intercept</i> (May 2, 2014) [<a href="http://www.munkdebates.com/debates/State-Surveillance">Results of the debate</a>]<br /><br />Political Compass Test<br /><br />Resources for Re-thinking the World<br /><br />Taylor, Bron. <a href="http://brightlightsfilm.com/82/82-avatar-dark-green-religion-environmentalism-indigenous-peoples.php#.U2kn7OhX-ua">"Battleground Pandora: The War over James Cameron's <i>Avatar</i>."</a> <i>Bright Lights Film Journal</i> #82 (November 2013)<br /><br /><br /><div style="background-color:#000000;width:520px;"><div style="padding:4px;"><iframe src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:0da1d3d3-6c38-4885-83fe-3e6693522e4b" width="512" height="288" frameborder="0"></iframe><p style="text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><b><a href="http://thedailyshow.cc.com/">The Daily Show</a></b><br/>Get More: <a href="http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/">Daily Show Full Episodes</a>,<a href="http://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow">The Daily Show on Facebook</a>,<a href="http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos">Daily Show Video Archive</a></p></div></div><br /><br /><br />Ferguson, Kirby. <a href="http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/">"Everything is a Remix."</a> [Four short videos examining remix aesthetics in multiple art forms.]<br /><br />Zurko, Nicholas. <a href="http://www.nyfa.edu/film-school-blog/gender-inequality-in-film/">"Gender Inequality in Film."</a> New York Film Academy (November 25, 2013)<br /><br /><a href="http://kentuckyelection.org/lexington/">Lexington Primaries</a><br /><br />Holland, Joshua. <a href="http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/02/a-primer-just-what-is-net-neutrality-and-why-all-the-fuss/">"A Primer: Just What Is Net Neutrality — and Why All the Fuss?"</a> <i>Moyers & Co</i> (May 2, 2014)<br /><br />McNair, James. <a href="http://kycir.org/2014/05/08/despite-cuts-kentucky-community-college-head-gets-lucrative-deal/">"Despite Cuts, Kentucky Community College Head Gets Lucrative Deal."</a> <i>Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting</i> (May 8, 2014)<br /><br />http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-eng-102-summer-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-802150051431395378Thu, 01 May 2014 21:01:00 +00002014-05-01T17:01:07.820-04:00Resources for May 1, 2014<a href="http://www.laurentlaveder.com/">Laurent Laveder</a> photograph:<br /><img src="http://www.laurentlaveder.com/images/080717_9450.jpg"><br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i> archive: <a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-1-2014.html">Resources for May 1, 2014</a><br /><br /><br />Happy May Day! International Workers' Holiday - Solidarity!<br /><img src="https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/10250298_751586371542513_4968185737002170601_n.jpg" width="95%"><br /><br /><br />Pyke, Alan. <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/05/01/3433227/seattle-15-dollar-minimum-wage/">"Seattle Announces $15 Minimum Wage, Highest In The U.S."</a> <i>Think Progress</i> (May 1, 2014)<br /><br /><br />Merchant, Brian. <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/read/a-drones-eye-view-of-the-latest-oil-train-explosion">"A Drone's Eye View of the Latest Oil Train Explosion."</a> <i>Motherboard</i> (May 1, 2014)<br /><br /><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/PEDe37x5u7vbGk5s6KA-AVcNq_pKHkJiRhzJ7znUwlH7q7fdo9Kn3qNtdsA39o3o61hHoMr9r6jbw-ELGC2KiUvFRDAlzsWakRw=s0" width="95%"><br /><br />Ross, Julianne. <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/88613/the-white-house-just-released-an-anti-sexual-assault-video-that-every-man-needs-to-see">"The White House Just Released an Anti-Sexual Assault Video That Every Man Needs to See."</a> <i>PolicyMic</i> (April 29, 2014)<br /><br /><i>Verso</i>: <a href="http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1572-interns-occupiers-and-strikers-a-may-day-2014-reading-list">Madison Van Oort -- Interns, Occupiers, and Strikers: A May Day 2014 Reading List</a><br /><br />Greenberg, Joel. <a href="http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/feathered-river-across-sky-0">"A Feathered River Across the Sky."</a> <i>Radio West</i> (April 24, 2014) ["This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon. Her species was native to North America, and in the 1800s the birds numbered in the billions. Their vast airborne flocks reportedly blotted out the sun and took days to pass overhead. But in just a few decades, they were gone. Naturalist Joel Greenberg has written a book about the passenger pigeon’s natural history and its speedy flight to extinction, and he joins us to examine what the bird’s demise reveals about our relationship to the natural world."]<br /><br /><i>Wikipedia</i>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_%28Internet%29">Sock Puppet (Internat)</a><br /><br />Dunning, Brian. <a href="http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4412">"Animal Predictors: Psychic, Sensitive, or Silly?"</a> <i>Skeptoid</i> (April 29, 2014)<br /><br />http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/05/resources-for-may-1-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-257078315442556602Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:27:00 +00002014-04-28T17:29:25.768-04:00Resources for April 28, 2014Gusterson, Hugh and Elaine Scarry. <a href="http://radioopensource.org/thermonuclear-monarchy-choosing-between-democracy-and-doom/">"Are We Numb to Nukes?"</a> <i>Radio Open Source</i> (April 10, 2014) ["We’re thinking our way through a plausible nuclear emergency with Elaine Scarry who reminds you – we’ve got a weapons monarchy in this democracy. Two decades after the fall of the Berlin wall and a nuclear football still accompanies the president at all times, nuclear missile silos still dot the great plains, and hundreds of nukes remain constantly on alert. How can we call it a democracy, the rule of the people, when there’s one man’s finger on the trigger that could destroy us all?"]<br /><br /><i>Business Insider</i>: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6">"6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America"</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mayerformayor?fref=nf">Mayer for Mayor</a> comments on the <i>Business Lexington</i> article <a href="http://bizlex.com/2014/04/hud-to-provide-lexington-a-loan-guarantee-toward-21c/2/">"HUD to Provide Lexington a Loan Guarantee for 21c Hotel Project."</a>: "As a writing teacher, I bristle when places like art hotel 21C receive $6 million in federal loans earmarked for low income economic development. Leaders seem to have no shame in assuming that the Main Street project of billionaire bourbon heiress Laura Lee Brown represents 'a powerful public investment tool to drive economic development in underserved areas.' Main Street is underserved? Have we re-defined this word? This isn't a semantic question--it enabled 21C to receive over 60% of this city's lending capacity for creating low-income jobs. Keep that in mind when you hear city leaders bemoan the need to create good-paying jobs. When it comes to jobs for low-income residents, our brain trust went with house maid--and it accomplished this by giving billionaire Louisvillians a special $6 million loan at reduced rates."<br /><br /><br />"There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit. The assertion of dogma closes the mind and turns a nation, a civilization into a regiment of ghosts — obedient ghosts, or tortured ghosts." -- Jacob Bronowski, <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/24/jacob-bronowski-ascent-of-man-knowledge-certainty/"><i>Ascent of Man</i></a> (1973)<br /><br /><br />“This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don’t think it’s a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” -- Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (1961)<br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ozftPJiRdQE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br /><iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.democracynow.org/embed/headlines/2014/4/28" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br /><br /><br />Dorr, Gary, et al. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/28/cowboy_indian_alliance_protests_keystone_xl">"Cowboy Indian Alliance Protests Keystone XL Pipeline in D.C. After Latest Obama Admin Delay."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (April 28, 2014)<br /><br />Johnsen, Gregory D. <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most">"60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History."</a> <i>Buzzfeed</i> (January 16, 2014)<br /><br />Ross, Julianne. <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/88029/17-lies-we-need-to-stop-teaching-girls-about-sex">"17 Lies We Need to Stop Teaching Girls About Sex."</a> <i>PolicyMic</i> (April 25, 2014)http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-28-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-4005749242528149453Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:52:00 +00002014-04-24T15:52:21.584-04:00Resources for April 24, 2014<a href="http://xkcd.com/"><i>XKCD</i></a>:<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zibZ4gSC1MY/U1fXFW0X4FI/AAAAAAAAAa8/I91tljklzS4/s1600/feedly+free+speech+limits.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zibZ4gSC1MY/U1fXFW0X4FI/AAAAAAAAAa8/I91tljklzS4/s400/feedly+free+speech+limits.png" /></a><br /><br /><br /><i>ACLU</i>: The Department of Justice announced expanded criteria for clemency applicants during a press conference today. <a href="https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/clemency-project-2014-praises-justice-department-breathing-new-life-clemency">According to the DOJ, thousands more will now be able to ask the President to commute or pardon their sentence.</a><br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i> archives:<br /><br /> <a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-23-2014_23.html">April 23, 2014</a><br /><br /><a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-24-2014.html">April 24, 2014</a><br /><br />Zander, Ben. <a href="http://radioopensource.org/rite-of-spring-revival/">"'Rite of Spring' Revival."</a> <i>Radio Open Source</i> (April 22, 2014)<br /><br />Jameison, Dave. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/22/fast-food-pay_n_5191927.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063">"Fast Food CEOs Make 1,000 Times More Than Their Typical Workers: Report."</a> <i>Huffington Post</i> (April 22, 2014)<br /><br />Giroux, Henry A. <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23156-henry-a-giroux-neoliberalism-democracy-and-the-university-as-a-public-sphere">"Neoliberalism, Democracy and the University as a Public Sphere."</a> <i>Truthout</i> (April 22, 2014)<br /><br /><i>Dialogic</i> Peace & Conflict Studies archive: <a href="http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/scott-horton-lawyer-human-rights.html">Scott Horton (Lawyer -- Human Rights, Emerging Markets and International Law)</a><br /><br />Sharma, Akhil. <a href="http://radioopensource.org/akhil-sharma-on-family-life/">"On Family Life."</a> <i>Radio Open Source</i> (April 23, 2014)["We’re in conversation with the writer that so many other writers are talking about, the Indian-born New Yorker, Akhil Sharma. His novel is Family Life, a faithful recounting in fiction of a horrific swimming-pool accident that did catastrophic brain damage to his gifted older brother and smashed his family’s immigrant adventure. But our conversation, like the book itself, is also about how writers are made, how agony becomes art, how memory wants be nudged forward. Akhil Sharma is telling us he chiseled 7,000 pages in draft to barely 200 pages in hardcover. It was a project, he says, that was full of love more than sadness, that was designed to be useful to his parents and others, and to move like a rocket. The conversation jumped from writing to life and back again, from Hemingway to Chekhov and Proust and the devices of storytelling and fiction. And we found that we were high on each other almost before we began."]<br /><br /><br /><i>Merriam-Webster's Word-of-the-Day</i>:<br /><br />fissiparous \fih-SIP-uh-rus\<br /> <br />adjective 1 : tending to break up into parts; 2 : creating disunity or dissension : divisive<br /><br /> EXAMPLES<br /> <br />The election for class president had a fissiparous effect on the school as students took sides for their favorite candidate.<br /> <br />"In Calvinism: A History, D.G. Hart … shows how Protestantism's fissiparous nature has allowed it to adapt and, in some instances, transmogrify to fit local and personal needs." — From a book review by Michael P. Orsi in the Washington Times (Washington D.C.), December 12, 2013<br /> <br /> When it first entered English in the 19th century, "fissiparous" was concerned with reproduction. In biology, a fissiparous organism is one that produces new individuals by fission; that is, by dividing into separate parts, each of which becomes a unique organism. (Most strains of bacteria do this.) Both "fissiparous" and "fission" trace back to Latin "findere" ("to split"). The second part of "fissiparous" is rooted in Latin "parere" ("to give birth to" or "to produce"). Other "parere" offspring refer to other forms of reproduction, including "oviparous" ("producing eggs that hatch outside the body") and "viviparous" ("producing living young instead of eggs"). By the end of the 19th century "fissiparous" had acquired a figurative meaning, describing something that breaks into parts or causes something else to break into parts.http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-24-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-3410781652384648399Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:11:00 +00002014-04-24T15:12:35.753-04:00Scott Horton (Lawyer -- Human Rights, Emerging Markets and International Law)Biographies/Archives/Organizations:<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Horton_%28attorney%29">Wikipedia: Scott Horton</a><br /><br /><a href="http://harpers.org/author/ScottHorton/#WriterOf">No Comment</a> (Scott Horton's Blog on <i>Harper's</i>)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Scott_Horton">Columbia Law School: Scott Horton</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nationinstitute.org/fellows/1185/scott_horton/">The Nation Institute: Scott Horton</a><br /><br /><a href="http://civilsocietylaw.org/about/bios/horton.html">The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law: Scott Horton</a> <br /><br /><br />Resources by/about/featuring Scott Horton:<br /><br />Horton, Scott. <a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/story/131796-7-letter-word/">"7 Letter Word."</a> <i>On the Media</i> (April 24, 2009) ["While some in the media wondered if Obama flip-flopped when it comes to prosecuting Bush Administration officials who authorized torture, the White House tried to get its media message straight ... all without actually using the T-word. Columbia University law professor and Harper's Magazine contributing editor Scott Horton explains why the Administration, and some members of the media, are backing away from "torture.""]<br /><br />---. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/6/fcc_launches_probe_of_alabama_tv">"FCC Launches Probe of Alabama TV Station Accused of Censoring a 60 Minutes Expose on the GOP’s Prosecution of Alabama’s Imprisoned Former Gov. Don Siegelman."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (March 6, 2008)<br /><br />---. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2007/8/28/attorney_scott_horton_gonzales_resignation_puts">"Gonzales Resignation Puts Torture, Guantanamo Back on Center Stage in Washington."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (August 28, 2007)<br /><br />---. <a href="http://www.nationinstitute.org/featuredwork/fellows/2764/politicizing_the_judiciary/">"Politicizing the Judiciary."</a> <i>Harper's</i> (June 28, 2012)<br /><br />---. <a href="http://lawanddisorder.org/2013/07/law-and-disorder-july-15-2013/">"Secret Federal FISA Court Advocate of National Security State."</a> <i>Law and Disorder Radio</i> (July 15, 2013)<br /><br />---. <a href="http://lawanddisorder.org/2011/08/law-and-disorder-august-15-2011/">"A Setback For Obama’s War On Whistleblowers."</a> <i>Law and Disorder Radio</i> (August 15, 2011)<br /><br />---. <a href="http://harpers.org/blog/2013/11/the-torture-doctors-2/">"The Torture Doctors."</a> <i>No Comment</i> (November 4, 2013) ["An expert panel concludes that the Pentagon and the CIA ordered physicians to violate the Hippocratic Oath"]<br /><br />---. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/134001/the_woman_who_could_nail_bush%3A_are_the_worst_of_the_torture_memos_still_to_come">"The Woman Who Could Nail Bush: Are the Worst of the Torture Memos Still to Come?"</a> <i>Alternet</i> (March 29, 2009)<br /><br />Rizzo, John and Scott Horton. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/28/a_debate_on_torture_legal_architect">"A Debate on Torture: Legal Architect of CIA Secret Prisons, Rendition vs. Human Rights Attorney."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (March 28, 2014)<br /><br />http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/scott-horton-lawyer-human-rights.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-7641967768668549639Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:54:00 +00002014-04-23T10:55:23.291-04:00Resources for April 23, 2014Benton, Michael Dean. <a href="http://lfucmayer.com/blog/2014-04-21/increase-minimum-wage">"Increase the Minimum Wage."</a> <i>Mayer for Mayor</i> (April 21, 2014)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.radiolab.org/story/60-words/">"60 Words."</a> <i>Radiolab</i> (April 18, 2014) ["This hour we pull apart one sentence, written in the hours after September 11th, 2001, that has led to the longest war in U.S. history. We examine how just 60 words of legal language have blurred the line between war and peace. In the hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a lawyer sat down in front of a computer and started writing a legal justification for taking action against those responsible. The language that he drafted and that President George W. Bush signed into law - called the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) - has at its heart one single sentence, 60 words long. Over the last decade, those 60 words have become the legal foundation for the "war on terror." In this collaboration with BuzzFeed, reporter Gregory Johnsen tells us the story of how this has come to be one of the most important, confusing, troubling sentences of the past 12 years. We go into the meetings that took place in the chaotic days just after 9/11, speak with Congresswoman Barbara Lee and former Congressman Ron Dellums about the vote on the AUMF. We hear from former White House and State Department lawyers John Bellinger & Harold Koh. We learn how this legal language unleashed Guantanamo, Navy Seal raids and drone strikes. And we speak with journalist Daniel Klaidman, legal expert Benjamin Wittes and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine about how these words came to be interpreted, and what they mean for the future of war and peace."]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.radiolab.org/story/straight-outta-chevy-chase/">"Straight Outta Chevy Chase."</a> <i>Radiolab</i> (April 1, 2014) ["Over the past 40 years, hip-hop music has gone from underground phenomenon to global commodity. But as The New Yorker's Andrew Marantz explains, massive commercial success is a tightrope walk for any genre of popular music, and especially one built on authenticity and “realness.” Hip-hop constantly runs the risk of becoming a watered-down imitation of its former self - just, you know, pop music. Andrew introduces us to Peter Rosenberg, a guy who takes this doomsday scenario very seriously. Peter is a DJ at Hot 97, New York City’s iconic hip-hop station, and a vocal booster of what he calls “real” hip-hop. But as a Jewish fellow from suburban Maryland, he's also the first to admit that he's an unlikely arbiter for what is and what isn't hip-hop. With the help of Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest and NPR's Frannie Kelley, we explore the strange ways that hip-hop deals with that age-old question: are you in or are you out?"]<br /><br />Blackford, Linda. <a href="http://www.kentucky.com/2014/04/21/3205844/small-group-of-university-of-kentucky.html">"University of Kentucky students protest plan to privatize dining services."</a> <i>Lexington Herald-Leader</i> (April 21, 2014)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.radiolab.org/story/kill-em-all/">"Kill 'em All."</a> <i>Radiolab</i> (March 25, 2014) ["Ever since there have been humans, mosquitoes have been biting us, and we’ve been trying to kill them. And, for the most part, the mosquitoes have been winning. Today there are over 3000 species on pretty much every corner of Earth. Mosquito-borne diseases kill around 1 million people a year (most of them children) and make more than 500 million people sick. But thanks to Hadyn Perry and his team of scientists, that might be about to change. Producer Andy Mills talks with author Sonia Shah about the difficulties of sharing a planet with mosquitoes and with science writer David Quammen about the risks of getting rid of them."]<br /><br /><br /><i>Democracy Now</i> Headlines for April 22, 2014:<br /><iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.democracynow.org/embed/headlines/2014/4/22" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br /><br />Kitchell, Mark. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/22/earth_day_special_fierce_green_fire">"Earth Day Special: <i>Fierce Green Fire</i> Documentary Explores Environmental Movement’s Global Rise."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (April 22, 2014)<br /><br /><br /><i>Merriam-Webster Word-of-the-Day</i><br /><br />oneiric \oh-NYE-rik\<br /> <br />adjective: of or relating to dreams : dreamy<br /> <br />EXAMPLES<br /> <br />The paintings, filled with fantastical imagery conjured by the artist's imagination, have a compellingly oneiric quality.<br /> <br />"Most of the actors here are double and triple cast, and if they barely differentiate among their roles, that just adds to the oneiric effect." — From a theater review by Jeffrey Gantz in The Boston Globe, March 12, 2012<br /><br /> The notion of using the Greek noun "oneiros" (meaning "dream") to form the English adjective "oneiric" wasn't dreamed up until the mid-19th century. But back in the early 1600s, linguistic dreamers came up with a few "oneiros" spin-offs, giving English "oneirocriticism," "oneirocritical," and "oneirocritic" (each referring to dream interpreters or interpretation). The surge in "oneiros" derivatives at that time may have been fueled by the interest then among English-speaking scholars in Oneirocritica, a book about dream interpretation by 2nd-century Greek soothsayer Artemidorus Daldianus.http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-23-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-3458413808998759873Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:53:00 +00002014-04-19T10:53:34.091-04:00Resources for April 19, 2014Hudson, David. <a href="http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/gabriel-garcia-marquez-1927-2014">"Gabriel García Márquez, 1927 – 2014."</a> <i>Keyframe</i> (April 17, 2014)<br /><br />Wallace, Gregory. <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/15/news/economy/oklahoma-minimum-wage-ban/">"Oklahoma bans local minimum wage hikes."</a> <i>CNN Money</i> (April 15, 2014)<br /><br />Gross, Daniel. <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/09/radical-fast-food-joint-doubles-down-on-high-wages.html">"Radical Fast Food Joint Doubles Down on High Wages."</a> <i>The Daily Beast</i> (September 9, 2013)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.americansfortaxfairness.org/files/Walmart-on-Tax-Day-Americans-for-Tax-Fairness-1.pdf">"Walmart on Tax Day: How Taxpayers Subsidize America’s Biggest Employer and Richest Family."</a> <i>Americans for Tax Fairness</i> (April 2014)<br /><br />Zornberg, Avivah. <a href="http://www.onbeing.org/program/avivah-zornberg-the-transformation-of-pharaoh-moses-and-god/6258">"The Transformation of Pharaoh, Moses, and God."</a> <i>On Being</i> (April 10, 2014) ["With a master of midrash as our guide, we walk through the Exodus story at the heart of Passover. It's not the simple narrative you've watched at the movies or learned in Sunday school. Neither Moses or Pharaoh, nor the oppressed Israelites or even God, are as they seem. As Avivah Zornberg reveals, Exodus is a cargo of hidden stories — telling the messy, strange, redemptive truth of us as we are, and life as it is."]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jwj.org/how-u-s-taxpayers-subsidize-the-nations-wealthiest-family">"How U.S. Taxpayers Subsidize the Nation's Wealthiest Family."</a> <i>Jobs with Justice</i> (April 14, 2014)<br /><br />Jones, Ann. <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/23144-how-us-wars-came-home-with-the-troops-up-close-personal-and-bloody">"How US Wars Came Home With the Troops: Up Close, Personal and Bloody."</a> <i>Truthout</i> (April 17, 2014)<br /><br />Courtney, Oliver. <a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=11741">" One Percent of Environmentalists Killings Lead to Convictions: Global Witness report co-author Oliver Courtney discusses the alarming number of murders in South America and how governments and corporations work in unison to subvert indigenous rights."</a> <i>Real Network News</i> (April 17, 2014)<br /><br />Crabapple, Molly. <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/george-bushs-paintings-arent-funny-105664_Page2.html#.U07Ph3czLTo">"George Bush's Paintings Aren't Funny: But they are fascinating."</a> <i>Politico</i> (April 13, 2014)<br /><br />Pangburn, D.J. <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/read/these-short-online-psychedelic-courses-will-bend-your-mind?utm_source=motherboardfb">"These Short Online Psychedelic Courses Will Bend Your Mind."</a> <i>Motherboard</i> (April 16, 2014)<br /><br />Glaser, April. <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/eff-expanding-student-and-community-organizing-and-we-need-your-help">"Electronic Frontier Foundation is Expanding into Student and Community Organizing, and We Need Your Help."</a> <i>Electronic Frontier Foundation</i> (April 9, 2014)<br /><br />http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-19-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-6936583445626682333Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:45:00 +00002014-04-17T15:10:47.996-04:00Resources for April 17, 2014Popova, Maria. <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/">"Famous Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers."</a> <i>Brain Pickings</i> (May 3, 2013)<br /><br />Jayaraman, Saru. <a href="http://billmoyers.com/episode/all-work-and-no-pay/">"All Work and No Pay."</a> <i>Bill Moyers and Co.</i> (April 4, 2014) ["Did you know the federal minimum wage for millions of restaurant workers is $2.13 an hour? Advocate Saru Jayaraman says that’s not only unfair but unsafe."]<br /><br /><i>Dialogic</i> archive: <a href="http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/laura-poitras-documentary-filmmaker-and.html">Laura Poitras: Documentary Filmmaker and Producer</a><br /><br />Ravitch, Diane. <a href="http://billmoyers.com/episode/public-schools-for-sale/">"Public Schools for Sale."</a> <i>Moyers & Co.</i> (March 28, 2014)<br /><br />Taibbi, Matt. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/15/who_goes_to_jail_matt_taibbi">"Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap from Wall Street to Main Street."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (April 15, 2014)<br /><br /><br /><i>Center for Constitutional Rights</i>: News on the torture accountability front -- Spain’s National Court is continuing its investigation into the alleged torture of men formerly detained at Guantánamo prison by U.S. officials, despite recent legislative restrictions stating that Spanish courts can only investigate human rights violations committed abroad if the suspects are present in Spain. In an order issued yesterday, Judge Pablo Ruz ruled that Spain’s obligations under international law to investigate any credible allegation of torture took precedence over the new restrictions, and <a href="http://bit.ly/1r010yX">renewed his request for information from the Obama Administration regarding any U.S.-based investigations into torture allegations</a>.<br /><br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i>: <a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-17-2014.html">Resources for April 17, 2014</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/14/this_award_is_for_snowden_glenn">""This Award is for Snowden": Greenwald, Poitras Accept Polk Honor for Exposing NSA Surveillance."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (April 14, 2014)<br /><br />Kumar, Deepa. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/04/16/living-in-the-grip-of-vigilance/media-stokes-our-terrorism-mindset">"Media Stokes Our Terrorism Mindset."</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (April 16, 2014)<br /><br />Isay, David. <a href="http://www.onbeing.org/program/dave-isay-the-everyday-art-of-listening/6268">"The Everyday Art of Listening."</a> <i>On Being</i> (April 17, 2014)http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-509333774729427940Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:11:00 +00002014-04-15T18:12:26.954-04:00Laura Poitras (Documentary Filmmaker and Producer)Biographies/Archives/Projects:<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras">Wikipedia: Laura Poitras</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.praxisfilms.org/about/laura-poitras">Praxis Films: Laura Poitras</a><br /><br /><a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/">The Intercept</a> ("The Intercept, a publication of First Look Media, was created by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill. It has a two-fold mission: one short-term, the other long-term. Our short-term mission is to provide a platform to report on the documents previously provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Although we are still building our infrastructure and larger vision, we are launching now because we believe we have a vital obligation to this ongoing and evolving story, to these documents, and to the public. Our NSA coverage will be comprehensive, innovative and multi-faceted. We have a team of experienced editors and journalists devoted to the story. We will use all forms of digital media for our reporting. In addition, we will publish primary source documents on which our reporting is based. We will also invite outside experts with area knowledge to contribute to our reporting, and provide a platform for commentary and reader engagement. Our long-term mission is to produce fearless, adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues. The editorial independence of our journalists will be guaranteed. They will be encouraged to pursue their passions, cultivate a unique voice, and publish stories without regard to whom they might anger or alienate. We believe the prime value of journalism is its power to impose transparency, and thus accountability, on the most powerful governmental and corporate bodies, and our journalists will be provided the full resources and support required to do this. While our initial focus will be the critical work surrounding the NSA story, we are excited by the opportunity to grow with our readers into the broader and more comprehensive news outlet that the The Intercept will become.")<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688636/">IMDB: Laura Poitras</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/topic/laura_poitras/">Salon: Laura Poitras</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=mycountrymycountry&mode=filmmaker">Zeitgeist Films: Laura Poitras</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/laura-poitras">The Guardian: Laura Poitras</a><br /><br /><br />Resources by/about Laura Poitras:<br /><br />Appelbaum, Jacob and Laura Poitras. <a href="http://www.praxisfilms.org/exhibitions/whitney-biennial">"Surveillance Teach-In."</a> <i>Praxis Films</i> (April 20, 2012)<br /><br />Appelbaum, Jacob, William Binney, and Laura Poitras. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/23/more_secrets_on_growing_state_surveillance">"More Secrets on Growing State Surveillance: Exclusive with NSA Whistleblower, Targeted Hacker."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (April 23, 2012)<br /><br />Greenwald, Glenn. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/12/bradley-manning-tapes-own-words">"Finally: hear Bradley Manning in his own voice."</a> <i>The Guardian</i> (March 12, 2013)<br /><br />---. <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_detained_at_border/">" U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border: Laura Poitras makes award-winning controversial films, and is targeted by the U.S. government as a result."</a> <i>Salon</i> (April 8, 2012) <br /><br />Greenwald, Glenn and Laura Poitras. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/4/11/video_glenn_greenwald_laura_poitras_q">"Q&A on Snowden, the Surveillance State & Press Freedom."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (April 11, 2014)<br /><br />Greenwald, Glenn, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance">"Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations."</a> <i>The Guardian</i> (June 9, 2013)<br /><br />---. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data-israel-documents">"NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel."</a> <i>The Guardian</i> (September 11, 2013)<br /><br />Leonard, Andrew. <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/04/14/a_pulitzer_triumph_snowden_reporting_wins_journalisms_top_prize/">"A Pulitzer triumph: Snowden reporting wins journalism’s top prize ."</a> <i>Salon</i> (April 14, 2014)<br /><br />Maas, Peter. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">"How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets."</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (August 18, 2013)<br /><br />Mizer, Brian and Laura Poitras. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/oath/audio.php">"The Oath."</a> <i>POV</i> (September 21, 2010)<br /><br />Poitras, Laura. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/241/">"An American woman's startling tale of life in Iraq."</a> <i>NOW</i> #241 (October 13, 2006)<br /><br />---. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/detained_in_the_us_filmmaker_laura">"Detained in the U.S.: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at U.S. Airports."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (April 20, 2012)<br /><br />---. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-security-agencys-domestic-spying-program.html">"The Program."</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (August 23, 2012)<br /><br />---. <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127238681">"Puzzling Over A Jihadi's Journey."</a> <i>Fresh Air</i> (June 2, 2010)<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lsEtEn0oYsY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/XFXLhJWDMXc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rzDpc0KfWCY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/laura-poitras-documentary-filmmaker-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-6733282767434865924Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:59:00 +00002014-04-15T15:01:26.599-04:00Resources for April 15, 2014Baker, Dean. <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23074-the-hedge-fund-managers-tax-break-because-wall-streeters-want-your-money">"The Hedge Fund Managers Tax Break: Because Wall Streeters Want Your Money."</a> <i>Truthout</i> (April 14, 2014)<br /><br />Harvey, David. <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=2371">"17 Contradictions of Capitalism."</a> <i>London School of Economics and Political Science</i> (April 2, 2014)<br /><br />Boyd, Andrew and Jonathan Matthew Smucker. <a href="http://beautifultrouble.org/principle/recapture-flag/">"Recapture the Flag."</a> <i>Beautiful Trouble</i> (2014)<br /><br />As a teacher, I'm not interested in just reproducing class after class of graduates who will get out, become successful, and take their obedient places in the slots that society has prepared for them. What we must do--whether we teach or write or make films--is educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world. (15)<br />-- Zinn, Howard. "Stories Hollywood Never Tells." The Sun #343 (July 2004): 12-15.<br /><br /><br />[Michael Benton: This poem goes good with the latest episode of Cosmos I watched last night -- both expand my mind while bringing me down to a perspective that often escapes my notice.]<br /><br />Spring Cress by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wesley.houp?fref=ts">Wesley Houp</a><br /><br />No pollinator,<br />no mason, <br />orchard, <br />or honeybee,<br />no wasp, <br />no fly,<br />needs more <br />than two sips<br />to get to the shallow heart<br />of a Spring Cress blossom.<br /><br />They go insatiably<br /> from one flower to the next,<br />rapt in magnetism <br />that spurns <br />vagaries of wind,<br />sun, <br />shadow,<br />each bloom, <br />pointed with light,<br /> providing scant sweetness,<br />but each white cross<br />an infinitesimal portion<br />to be multiplied by a billion<br />to comprise the whole<br />of the world.<br /><br />Two statements of fact:<br />A single bee <br />will kill itself trying<br /> to take in the whole,<br />one bee <br />after another<br />all spring,<br />but this world <br />has given up<br />on death for now.<br /><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/GmWadizC8AQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i>: <a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-15-2014.html">Resources for April 15, 2014)</a><br /><br />Schlosser, Eric. <a href="http://www.booktv.org/Watch/14933/After+Words+Eric+Schlosser+Command+and+Control+Nuclear+Weapons+the+Damascus+Accident+and+the+Illusion+of+Safety+hosted+by+Lynn+Davis+DC+Director+of+RAND.aspx">"<i>Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety</i>."</a> <i>Book TV</i> (October 6, 2013) ["Using recently declassified documents, Eric Schlosser details the ease with which an accident can occur when handling nuclear weapons and how little control military leaders and missile designers have over them. He speaks with Lynn Davis, the former U.S. undersecretary for arms control and the director of the RAND corporation's Washington office."]<br /><br />Fadiman, Dorothy. <a href="http://www.radioproject.org/2014/03/motherhood-by-choice-not-chance/">"Motherhood by Choice Not Chance."</a> <i>Making Contact</i> (March 11, 2014) ["Before it was legal in the United States, some doctors would risk arrest to provide women with access to safe abortions. When that wasn’t possible, some sought abortions from unsafe providers, often with deadly consequences. The Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973, and the numbers of people dying after having an abortion dropped, but are we now seeing a return to the past? ... what can the time before abortion was legal tell us about the dangers of restricting access to abortion today? We’ll hear a special radio adaption of “Motherhood by Choice not Chance” a documentary produced and narrated by Dorothy Fadiman.<br /><br />"It was my job to report what those in power were doing or thinking . . . That is all someone in my sort of job can do." -- BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson (2014); <a href="http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2012/02/glenn-greenwald-former-constitutional.html">Glenn Greenwald</a> responded on Twitter: "That'd make an excellent epitaph on the tombstone of modern establishment journalism." (2014)<br />http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-15-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-7337627517440955341Sun, 13 Apr 2014 04:29:00 +00002014-04-13T00:31:20.099-04:00Resources for April 12, 2014<div style="background-color:#000000;width:520px;"><div style="padding:4px;"><iframe src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:132857e5-bbbe-489f-8dd0-45c203cb41dc" width="512" height="288" frameborder="0"></iframe><p style="text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><b><a href="http://thedailyshow.cc.com/">The Daily Show</a></b><br/>Get More: <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/">Daily Show Full Episodes</a>,<a href="http://www.comedycentral.com/indecision">Indecision Political Humor</a>,<a href="http://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow">The Daily Show on Facebook</a></p></div></div><br /><br /><br />Democracy Now Headlines for April 9, 2014:<br /><iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.democracynow.org/embed/headlines/2014/4/9" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br /><br /><br />Roy, Arundhati. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/9/is_india_on_a_totalitarian_path">"Is India on a Totalitarian Path? Arundhati Roy on Corporatism, Nationalism and World’s Largest Vote."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (April 9, 2014)<br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i>: <a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-10-2014_9.html">Resources for April 10, 2014</a><br /><br />Zerkel, Mary. <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/22908-dollars-for-endless-war-or-investment-in-a-new-era">"Dollars for Endless War or Investment in a New Era?"</a> <i>Truthout</i> (April 9, 2014)<br /><br />Gordon, Paul. <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23003-billionaires-score-big-win-with-mccutcheon-decision">"Billionaires Score Big Win With McCutcheon Decision."</a> <i>Truthout</i> (April 10, 2014)<br /><br />\ Merchant, Brian. <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/read/100-harvard-faculty-call-on-the-university-to-divest?utm_source=motherboardfb">"93 Harvard Faculty Members Call on the University to Divest from Fossil Fuels."</a> <i>Motherboard</i> (April 10, 2014)<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/988424_10151898662126653_8453089703834269767_n.jpg" width="95%"><br /><br /><br />Chatterjee, Partha. <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=2373">"Nationalism, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism: some lessons from modern Indian history."</a> <i>London School of Economics and Political Science</i> (April 3, 2014)<br /><br /> <br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/vkpz7xFTWJo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-12-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-8034441416276239104Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:06:00 +00002014-04-08T12:17:59.538-04:00Resources for April 8, 2014<a href="http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/LastWordNeolibAttackEdn/index.html">"The War on/in Higher Education."</a> <i>Jump Cut</i> #55 (Fall 2013)<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/1511685_814946271867121_25443387_n.jpg"><br /><br /><br />Derrick Jensen. <a href="http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/311">"Endgame."</a> <i>Unwelcome Guests</i> #311 (June 18, 2006) ["Derrick Jensen speaking about his forthcoming book, Endgame, on the hidden nature of violence in Western Culture, and the revolutionary nature of the changes needed to live on the land sustainability once more. He begins by explaining his premises, and argues from them why he believes violent destruction of man's civilizing influence on nature is the appropriate response, and one for which future generations will thank us."]<br /><br /><br /><i>Center for Constitutional Rights</i>: The Washington State Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by five members of the Olympia Food Co-op against current and former members of the Co-op’s Board of Directors for their decision to boycott Israeli goods. The court held that the lawsuit was a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, or SLAPP, and that participation in the boycott is protected by the First Amendment. Read CCR's <a href="http://bit.ly/Otzk8P">press release here</a>.<br /><br /><br />Lowery, Wesley. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/07/mitch-mcconnell-probably-isnt-a-fan-of-the-new-yorkers-new-cover/">"Mitch McConnell isn’t going to be a big fan of this week’s New Yorker cover."</a> <i>Washington Post</i> (April 7, 2014)<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/10155001_10152070899115745_3646188498014894236_n.jpg"><br /><br /><br />Merriam-Webster Word-of-the-Day<br /><br />virescent \vuh-RESS-unt\<br /> <br />adjective: beginning to be green : greenish <br />Examples:<br /><br /> Buds formed on the bare trees, infusing the stark branches with a slight virescent tint.<br /> <br />"While Heisman Trophy winner and National Football League quarterback Tim Tebow read 'Green Eggs and Ham,' during Dr. Seuss Week, Lincoln Elementary kindergarten teacher Mary Jo Bures quietly slipped away to a meeting. None of the kindergartners noticed, their eyes fixated on the screen, their ears absorbing the story of Sam I Am and his never wavering quest to get the narrator to try the virescent foods." — From an article by Chris Dunker in the Beatrice Daily Sun (Nebraska), February 25, 2014<br /><br /><br /><i>Center for Constitutional Rights</i>:<br />Today, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei is at Guantanamo, urging a Periodic Review Board to clear for release CCR client Ghaleb Al-Bihani. He has been imprisoned for 12 years without charge or trial. Watch Pardiss <a href="bit.ly/1g0MAJA">discussing Ghaleb's case in this vlog</a>.<br /><br /><br />Kiely, Declan and Isaac Gewirtz. <a href="http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-51-poes-terror-of-the-soul.php">"Poe's Terror of the Soul."</a> <i>Lapham's Quarterly Podcast</i> #51 (November 20, 2013)<br /><br />http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-8-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-1634993379666055144Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:56:00 +00002014-04-07T10:56:00.402-04:00Resources for April 6, 2014<a href="http://ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/">"Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability."</a> <i>IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)</i> (2014)<br /><br />Ludwig, Mike. <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/22823-fcc-votes-to-curb-media-consolidation-in-local-tv-markets">"FCC Votes To Curb Media Consolidation in Local TV Markets."</a> <i>Truthout</i> (April 1, 2014)<br /><br />Miller, Greg, Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-misled-on-interrogation-program-senate-report-says/2014/03/31/eb75a82a-b8dd-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html">"CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says."</a> <i>Washington Post</i> (March 31, 2014)<br /><br />Correia, David. <a href="http://lajicarita.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/photos-from-the-protest-apd-riot-troops-mounted-units-tanks-and-military-style-tactical-units-in-albuquerque/">"APD Riot Troops, Mounted Units, Tanks and Military-Style Tactical Units in Albuquerque."</a> <i>La Jicarita</i> (March 31, 2014)<br /><br /><a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/22883-shouldnt-gm-get-the-death-penalty-for-57-cent-premeditated-murder">"Should GM Get the Death Penalty for 57 Cent Premeditated Murder?</a> <i>Truthout</i> (April 3, 2014)<br /><br />Potter, Will. <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/animal-rights-activist-sentenced-to-30-months-in-jail-for-having-bolt-cutters-in-his-car">"Animal Rights Activist Sentenced to 30 Months in Jail for Having Bolt Cutters in His Car."</a> <i>Vice</i> (April 3, 2014)<br /><br /><img src="http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/KleinhansLincolnBiblio/images/internet.jpg"><br /><br /><br />." Mullins, Paul. <a href="http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/the-peep-show-of-death-televising-human-remains/">"The Peep Show of Death: Televising Human Remains."</a> <i>Archaeology and Material Culture</i> (March 28, 2014)<br /><br /><i>Dialogic Cinephilia</i>: <a href="http://internationalfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-5-2014.html">Resources for April 5, 2014</a><br /><br /><br /><i>Merriam-Webster's Word-of-the-Day</i><br /><br />debunk \dee-BUNK\<br /> <br />verb: to expose the sham or falseness of<br /> <br />At the premiere of their new movie, the actor and actress addressed the media to debunk the rumor that they were dating.<br /> <br />If you guessed that "debunk" has something to do with "bunk," meaning "nonsense," you're correct. We started using "bunk" at the beginning of the 20th century. (It derived, via "bunkum," from a remark made by a congressman from Buncombe county, North Carolina.) A little less than 25 years later, "debunk" was first used in print for the act of taking the "bunk" out of something. There are plenty of synonyms for "debunk," including "disprove," "rebut," "refute," and the somewhat rarer "confute." Even "falsify" can mean "prove something false," in addition to "make something false." "Debunk" itself often suggests that something is not merely untrue, but also a sham; one can simply disprove a myth, but if it is "debunked," the implication is that it was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.<br /><br /><br />http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-6-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-1985380994723737841Thu, 03 Apr 2014 20:07:00 +00002014-04-04T08:32:45.074-04:00Resources for April 3, 2014Maguire, Robert. <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/03/dark-money-stays-dark-in-nevada-des.html">"Despite Disclosure, Dark Money Stays Dark in Nevada."</a> <i>Open Secrets</i> (March 31, 2014)<br /><br /><br /><i>Center for Constitutional Rights</i>: While Donald Rumsfeld gets to explain himself in yet another film, instead of a court of law, here are the stories of U.S. veterans and Iraqi civilians fighting to overcome the harm caused by his actions. We've known for a decade that Rumsfeld lied and bears criminal responsibility for a massive host of international and domestic crimes. It is time to focus on the stories of those who will bring him, Bush, Cheney, and the rest, to justice. <a href="http://bit.ly/1pRpSs1">Here’s the full VIDEO of the People’s Hearing on the Lasting Impact of the Iraq War</a>.<br /><br /><br /><i>Democracy Now</i> Headlines for April 3, 2014<br /><iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.democracynow.org/embed/headlines/2014/4/3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br /><br /><br />Sanders, Bernie. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/3/sen_bernie_sanders_supreme_court_undermines">"Supreme Court Undermines Democracy by Allowing Billionaires to "Buy Elections."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (April 3, 2014)<br /><br />Kroll, Andy. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/3/the_next_citizens_united_mccutcheon_opens">"'The Next Citizens United': McCutcheon Opens Floodgates for 1 Percent to Spend Millions on Campaigns."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (April 3, 2014)<br /><br />Claybrook, Joan and Ken Rimer. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/3/ex_auto_safety_head_parent_of">"Ex-Auto Safety Head & Parent of Dead Victim: GM CEOs Should Face Prison for Covering Up Safety Flaws."</a> <i>Democracy Now</i> (April 3, 2014)<br /><br /><br /><i>Center for Constitutional Rights</i>: As the Senate Intelligence Committee moves to vote today on whether to declassify its report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture practices, <a href="http://bit.ly/1k4cDqs">here's a reminder that torture is happening even today, on President Obama’s watch, at Guantánamo Bay</a>.<br /><br /><br />Hintze, Thomas. <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/22837-dhs-study-praises-occupy-sandy-with-murky-intentions">"Homeland Security Study Praises Occupy Sandy, With Murky Intentions."</a> <i>Truthout</i> (April 2, 2014)<br /><br />Koerth-Baker, Maggie. <a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/04/01/archaeologists-vs-the-nationa.html">"Archaeologists vs. The National Geographic Channel."</a> <i>Boing Boing</i> (April 1, 2014)<br /><br />Henwood, Doug. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/03/30/was-marx-right/a-return-to-a-world-marx-would-have-known">"A Return to a World Marx Would Have Known."</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (March 30, 2014)http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2014/04/resources-for-april-3-2014_3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael)0